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<strong>Quelli</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong>Grock</strong><br />

in <strong>collaboration</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>ABA</strong><br />

<strong>presents</strong><br />

QUASI PERFETTA<br />

ALMOST PERFECT - A SHOW ON ANOREXIA<br />

by Valeria Cavalli e Clau<strong>di</strong>o Intropido<br />

<strong>Quelli</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong>Grock</strong><br />

<strong>with</strong> scenery <strong>collaboration</strong> and light design <strong>of</strong> <strong>ABA</strong><br />

Clau<strong>di</strong>o Intropido <strong>presents</strong><br />

music<br />

Gipo Gurrado<br />

scientific advise<br />

Maria Barbuto<br />

<strong>with</strong><br />

Giulia Bacchetta<br />

<strong>di</strong>rected by<br />

Clau<strong>di</strong>o Intropido


Technical note<br />

Stage 8x8 m<br />

Stage rigging not necessary<br />

Total darkening needed<br />

Electric power 10 kW<br />

Assemblage 4 h<br />

Showtime 75 min<br />

Genre actor’s theatre<br />

QUELLI DI GROCK<br />

Via Emanuele Muzio 3<br />

20124 Milano - Italy<br />

Tel. +39 02.66988993<br />

Fax +39 02.6690173<br />

www.quelli<strong>di</strong>grock.it<br />

international@quelli<strong>di</strong>grock.it<br />

SYNOPSIS<br />

On stage a single actress tells us the story <strong>of</strong> Alice, a once anorexic girl who<br />

is now cured: Alice narrates her story <strong>with</strong> great exigency and the need to<br />

make known her problem as it is too <strong>of</strong>ten veiled and unknown.<br />

Her story is a story like many others in which an unease, apparently<br />

unremarkable, changes, increases and consequently alters and becomes a<br />

serious illness.<br />

In the play, Alice is surrounded by some key personalities, all parts interpreted<br />

by the same actress: a competitive and uninviting mother, a practically absent<br />

father, a friend who does not understand, a love never returned and Adele,<br />

the caretaker in her buil<strong>di</strong>ng, a warm-hearted and understan<strong>di</strong>ng person.<br />

Alice brings on stage a sort <strong>of</strong> <strong>di</strong>ary made <strong>of</strong> flash-backs, memories, images;<br />

the main character’s personality changes, her thoughts become obsessions.<br />

Step by step her uneasiness, blossomed as frequently happens silently and<br />

underhand, turns into something desperate and evident.<br />

The sincerity <strong>of</strong> the words which Alice pronounces at the end <strong>of</strong> the play<br />

in<strong>di</strong>cates the answer to a desperate need for help: anorexia has to be and<br />

can be cured and it is possible thanks to the support from those who love us<br />

and are near to us and show us <strong>with</strong> consciousness a way to start again and<br />

stand on our own feet.<br />

Almost perfect is a very strong and necessary play, but never tearful or<br />

pathetic, which faces the actuality and the harshness <strong>of</strong> the issue through an<br />

evocative and symbolic theatrical language.<br />

The unease narrated in this story examines eating <strong>di</strong>sorders but wants to represent<br />

a model for analysis and reflections on other mental and psychosomatic<br />

<strong>di</strong>sorders <strong>of</strong> our days, e.g. alcoholism, drug ad<strong>di</strong>ction, depression.<br />

ph & © Roberto ROGNONI


Festivals and awards<br />

“LiFest - Lo spettacolo<br />

delle scienze della vita”<br />

Gallarate (Italy) 2006<br />

“Segnali”<br />

Pavia (Italy) 2004<br />

E dopo più niente. Dopo<br />

non provi più niente.<br />

Dentro sei vuota, pulita,<br />

pura. Sei liscia, scavata,<br />

tutto entra ed esce da<br />

te con facilità. Entra<br />

ed esce. Scivola fuori,<br />

non si può fermare.<br />

Entra e quando stai<br />

per scoppiare ti svuoti.<br />

Via tutto quel peso,<br />

l’eccesso, quello che<br />

non serve, quello che, se<br />

resta lì, <strong>di</strong>venta la parte<br />

brutta <strong>di</strong> te. Invece<br />

così stai bene, vuota,<br />

leggera, che ti pare <strong>di</strong><br />

volare.<br />

NOTES ON THE PROJECT<br />

Quasi perfetta – Almost perfect had its opening in February 2004 and since then it<br />

toured many Italian cities before coming to Milan. This was a specific decision <strong>of</strong><br />

the company: thanks to the tour we finished our study about the au<strong>di</strong>ence and<br />

its reactions understan<strong>di</strong>ng the level <strong>of</strong> listening, necessity and attention to the<br />

subject <strong>of</strong> anorexia and eating <strong>di</strong>sorders.<br />

Since the beginning we were not interested in statistics (we <strong>di</strong>d not even consider<br />

them during the making <strong>of</strong> the show) but it seemed important to us to measure and<br />

see if, and how much, talking about such a burning topic, which had already been<br />

treated by newspapers and television, would be really urgent and necessary.<br />

Our intention is to talk about this problem in an emotional way avoi<strong>di</strong>ng the<br />

technical and specific language <strong>of</strong> the nutritionists, searching to stay away from<br />

psychoanalytic trivia and <strong>di</strong>squisition and to let simplicity guide us. The simplicity is<br />

a precise symbol <strong>of</strong> this show: it clearly marks the story, which actually develops<br />

like many others <strong>with</strong> a deviation; it is the story <strong>of</strong> a normality that converts into<br />

pathology, into obsession, into drama. We are the first to be aware that a story<br />

like Quasi perfetta is unfortunately very current, especially during the periods <strong>of</strong> life<br />

where changes take place, where self-confidence vacillates and interior values<br />

weaken.<br />

Furthermore we wanted to create a show suitable to every kind <strong>of</strong> au<strong>di</strong>ence,<br />

<strong>with</strong>out outlined limits, in order that an adolescent would be able to identify himself<br />

in this restless growing-up and an adult would be able to remember his past, and<br />

maybe never forgotten, moments. But above all we wanted to put on stage the<br />

intimacy <strong>of</strong> suffering, which is <strong>of</strong>ten nourished by apparent banality: Alice’s story<br />

develops in leaps <strong>with</strong>in happy, funny and sad memories that, however, never<br />

express moral judgment.<br />

To be able to search the person responsible, and maybe find him, is an illusion.<br />

Pointing the finger against the examples proposed on television, against a permissive<br />

or too strict education, against the <strong>di</strong>etary models <strong>of</strong> our time, moves away from<br />

the real knot that creates eating <strong>di</strong>sorders: a suppressed pain, an immense hunger<br />

for love, <strong>of</strong> which one could even <strong>di</strong>e.<br />

During our tour we presented Quasi perfetta to <strong>di</strong>fferent au<strong>di</strong>ences: we referred to<br />

specialists (psychiatrists and psychologists), to youngsters <strong>of</strong> secondary schools, to<br />

social workers as well as to parents. The reactions and the consents we collected<br />

confirm the infinite possibilities <strong>of</strong>fered by theatre because, and we say this <strong>with</strong>out<br />

rhetoric, it really opens people’s hearts.<br />

We treated this subject <strong>with</strong> extreme reserve and therefore we chose not to work<br />

<strong>with</strong> an anorexic actress and we avoided debasing such a delicate topic and<br />

satisfying certain unhealthy curiosities. We limited ourselves <strong>of</strong>fering only an idea <strong>of</strong><br />

a thin body because we <strong>di</strong>d not want to exhibit, but to make the problem felt.<br />

Quasi perfetta has been a big success wherever it has been presented; it has<br />

been, and still is, a very particular experience for us who have been making theatre<br />

for many years because we have never received so many words, intimacies,<br />

e-mails and embraces from perfect strangers who at the end <strong>of</strong> the performance<br />

wanted to show their appreciation in a <strong>di</strong>fferent way from clapping their hands.<br />

Unfortunately there are also many who report on sick persons or on who they have<br />

lost: friends, children, classmates. This show is de<strong>di</strong>cated to all <strong>of</strong> them.<br />

Valeria Cavalli and Clau<strong>di</strong>o Intropido


C’ero quasi. Stavo<br />

per spiccare il volo.<br />

Ero <strong>di</strong>ventata leggera,<br />

leggerissima come nel<br />

mio sogno. Ero quasi<br />

perfetta. E invece per<br />

non farmi volare mi<br />

hanno ancorata qui a<br />

terra. In un letto. Mi sono<br />

dovuta arrendere. Mi<br />

hanno costretta. E io non<br />

ho avuto nemmeno la<br />

forza <strong>di</strong> ribellarmi perché<br />

non avevo la forza <strong>di</strong><br />

fare più niente.<br />

Io sapevo benissimo<br />

che cosa avevo. Io ero<br />

malata. Ero anoressica.<br />

E <strong>di</strong> anoressia si può<br />

anche morire. Dovevo<br />

fare qualcosa, ma<br />

dovevo deciderlo io. E<br />

l’ho fatto.<br />

PRESS REVIEW<br />

ROMA (Italy) - 4/02/2006<br />

Giulia Bacchetta, sola in scena, assimila sulla sua carne il <strong>di</strong>sagio esistenziale <strong>di</strong><br />

Alice, e con lei si trasforma. […] Il teatro, in questo caso, realizza in pieno il suo<br />

scopo: dà forza al messaggio, <strong>di</strong>retto come una lama che centra l’obiettivo e va<br />

in pr<strong>of</strong>on<strong>di</strong>tà, ma senza far male. Oltre la s<strong>of</strong>ferenza, infatti, “Quasi perfetta” lascia<br />

un messaggio positivo, in<strong>di</strong>rizzato soprattutto ai giovani, con uno scopo alto. [...]<br />

Giulia Bacchetta, riuscendo ad incarnare le ossessioni <strong>di</strong> Alice nel viso, nei muscoli,<br />

nei nervi, negli arti, è un’attrice completa, perché danza, trasformando in ali le sue<br />

braccia bellissime, e <strong>di</strong>segna sul suo corpo il corpo <strong>di</strong> Alice.<br />

MILANO FINANZA (Italy) - 07/07/2005<br />

Viene raccontato così, con il linguaggio evocativo e gestuale della compagnia<br />

<strong>Quelli</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong>Grock</strong>, Il dramma dell’anoressia. Sul palcoscenico l’attrice Giulia<br />

Bacchetta [...] interpreta Quasi perfetta, ovvero Alice, una giovane ormai<br />

uscita dal tunnel della malattia, che fa emergere ricor<strong>di</strong>, personaggi e fantasmi<br />

protagonisti della sua storia <strong>di</strong> <strong>di</strong>sagio adolescenziale. […] Il monologo non dà<br />

giu<strong>di</strong>zi né cerca colpevoli, ma consegna alla <strong>di</strong>mensione emotiva del teatro il<br />

compito <strong>di</strong> comunicare e coinvolgere lo spettatore all’interno <strong>di</strong> un dolore che è<br />

innanzitutto spirituale.<br />

CORRIERE DELLA SERA (Italy) - 29/06/2005<br />

“Quasi Perfetta - uno spettacolo sull’anoressia” è un testo <strong>di</strong> impegno civile scritto<br />

da Valeria Cavalli con il supporto scientifico dell’associazione A.B.A., messo in<br />

scena con bel rigore da Clau<strong>di</strong>o Intropido, interpretato con bravura e impegno<br />

da Giulia Bacchetta, uno spettacolo che racconta il <strong>di</strong>sagio <strong>di</strong> vivere <strong>di</strong> Alice.<br />

Con sensibilità e spirito <strong>di</strong>dattico il testo si addentra nel mondo della ragazzina<br />

[…]. A poco a poco il monologo cala lo spettatore nell’ossessione <strong>di</strong> Alice, […]<br />

che giunta allo stremo delle forze troverà la forza <strong>di</strong> chiedere aiuto e ricominciare<br />

perché <strong>di</strong> anoressia si può guarire.<br />

LA PADANIA (Italy) - 26/06/2005<br />

E’ un bello spettacolo quello realizzato dalla storica compagnia milanese <strong>Quelli</strong> <strong>di</strong><br />

<strong>Grock</strong>, che oltre a far capire, fa anche commuovere. [...] Un <strong>di</strong>ario <strong>di</strong> s<strong>of</strong>ferenza<br />

a partire dalla “normale” situazione <strong>di</strong> <strong>di</strong>sagio giovanile […]. Una storia come<br />

tante, non eccezionale, la quale ben rende un <strong>di</strong>sagio che ancora del tutto non<br />

è emerso alla superficie. […] Lo spettacolo <strong>di</strong> Valeria Cavalli è destinato anche a<br />

un pubblico <strong>di</strong> adolescenti, perché <strong>di</strong> loro soprattutto si parla.<br />

IL GIORNO (Italy) - 24/06/2005<br />

Allestito con rigoroso impegno dal regista del gruppo Clau<strong>di</strong>o Intropido, per<br />

l’interpretazione altrettanto convincente <strong>di</strong> Giulia Bacchetta, lo spettacolo ha<br />

come tema l’anoressia. […] Il monologo che la Bacchetta si cuce addosso [...],<br />

ha il merito <strong>di</strong> una schietta comunicativa e, attraverso una persuasiva ricerca<br />

delle cause interiori del male, raggiunge le ricerche più avanzate <strong>di</strong> psichiatri e<br />

psicologi. Dell’anoressia l’autrice Valeria Cavalli rende senza inutili patetismi la<br />

lotta per sottrarsi alla “quasi perfezione” <strong>di</strong> un suici<strong>di</strong>o che non vuole chiamarsi<br />

così. Il risultato è quello <strong>di</strong> una catarsi nel nome della vita.

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